CIA Calling for Shut Down of Zero Hedge Because It’s a Foreign Intelligence Agency

The CIA is a private company and they have a right to censor whoever they want to censor.

Wait, no, I mean – wait.

The CIA isn’t a private company, but Zero Hedge is a private company, which means that the CIA has a right to shut it down, because the First Amendment only says that… that the government can’t shut down news agencies they agree with.

Or whatever.

Anyway, we have to stop the disinfo.

RT:

The Associated Press (AP) published an article on Tuesday citing unnamed “US intelligence officials” who accused libertarian financial blog ZeroHedge – which has repeatedly criticized US President Joe Biden – of “amplifying Russian propaganda.”

Nomaan Merchant, AP’s intelligence and national security reporter, wrote that the unnamed officials accused ZeroHedge of publishing articles “created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence.”

The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia,” Merchant noted, adding that AP was briefed by the officials “on the condition of anonymity.”

ZeroHedge – which AP acknowledged had been “sharply critical of Biden and posted stories about allegations of wrongdoing by his son Hunter” – denied the accusations and accused AP of publishing a “bizarre hit piece” sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Well, now we’ve done it – we’ve angered the CIA, and for what? For publishing views that challenge the conventional narrative, such as disputing that an invasion of Ukraine is actually ‘imminent’ as the US State Department and its mainstream media conduits repeat day after day,” ZeroHedge declared.

“Of course, there is no actual accusation that Zero Hedge works directly with anyone tied to Russia or its intelligence apparatus,” the website noted, before stating that it had “never worked, collaborated or cooperated with Russia, nor are there any links to spy (or any other) agencies.”

Yeah, bro.

Just be honest and reasonable and they will act with good faith.

Trust me, I have a lot of experience with this.

They tried to shut me down and I was just like “bro, it’s cool, I’m cool, don’t worry, this is all just totally cool.”

And so the government stopped trying to shut down my website.

Of course, the actual CIA never directly came out and asked for me to be shut down.

So you could be hecked.

I’m just going to say it one more time: every single one of you faggots were silent when they silenced me in 2017.

Well, not every one. Sargon of Akkad defended me. And Tucker Carlson. A few other people.

But Zero Hedge didn’t!

Now comes the comeuppance!